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OF ATHENS COUNTY. 



Delivered in the House of Representatives, March 25, 1874, on the 
Passage of House Bill, No, 285, by Mr. Lewis: A Bill to 
Provide for a More Economxcal and Better Regu- 
lation of Hospitals for the Insane. 



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SPEECH 



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Gen. C. H. GROSVENOR, 

OF ATHENS COUNTY. 



Delivered in the Souse of Representatives, MarcJi 25, 1874, on the Passage 
of Hotise Bill, No. 285, by Mr. Z,ewis : A Bill to Provide for a More 
Economical and Better Regulation of Hospitals for the Insane. 



All the amendments to this bill offered by Messrs. 
Grosvenor, Morris, Richards, and others, had been 
steadily voted down by the solid vote of the Demo- 
cratic majority; the bill had been ordered to be en- 
grossed for the third reading, and no amendment had 
been offered by any Democrat after the bill left the 
hands of the Committee on Insane Asylums. It was 
ready for its passage, and everything indicated that the 
Democratic majority was prepared to force it through in 
the shape it came from its author. 

The Speaker of the House — " The question is 
shall the bill pass ?'" 

Mr. Grosvenor said : 

Mr. Speaker:— —It is natural, upon the presentation 
to this House of a bill like this, bearing upon its face 
an indictment and judgment of condemnation upon the 



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Republican party, that members of that party upon this 
floor should demand that the indictment here filed should 
be sustained by proof satisfactory to the honest thinking 
men of the State of Ohio. 

This bill has a peculiar feature. I refer to its pre- 
amble, and I undertake to say, that the legislation of 
this State for twenty years will furnish no precedent for 
the preamble to this bill. It reads as follows: 

''Whereas, three-fourths of all the State taxes are 
being consumed by the benevolent institutions of the 
State in the support of their inmates, and providing 
new places for them ; and whereas, there is reason to 
believe that there is extravagance, if not dishonesty, in 
the expenditure of the taxes of the people; therefore, 
be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of 
Ohio," etc. 

Now, for what purpose is this preamble placed in 
this bill ? Is it placed here because it is true ; or is it 
because the majority on this floor hesitate doing this 
act — passing this bill — and placing this indictment of 
the Republican party upon record to quiet the con- 
sciences of the supporters of this measure ? If the 
preamble of this bill is true, there can be no possible 
apology for delay in the passage of this bill. If not 
true, the majority on this floor are driven to the neces- 
sity of admitting that they pass this act for the simple 
purpose of partisan spoil. I propose no arraignment 
of the Democratic party, except as it may be incidental 
to the defense of the Republican administration of these 
institutions. I stand here, Mr. Speaker, to proclaim, 
reiterate, and declare, that this Republican party, in its 



administration of the affairs of this State, has set an 
example worthy of the commendation of all true men. 
I stand here to defend it in each of its public acts — to 
deny that anywhere upon its record there can be found 
a blot. 

It is said that the system of managing the benevo- 
lent institutions in the interest of political parties is 
chargeable to the Republicans. I deny this. If it has 
become the settled policy of the people of Ohio to treat 
the benevolent institutions of the State as the basis of 
party capital ; if the funds that are disbursed for the 
support and maintenance of these institutions have be- 
come the stock in trade of political parties, I maintain 
it is not the fault of the Republican party that such is 
the case. Before the Republican party had its exist- 
ence — before the fiat of the people of this country called 
the chaotic elements of opposition to the corrupt De- 
mocracy into the form of a great political organization, 
these benevolent institutions were taken out of the hands 
of the Democratic party. That party had been so faith- 
less to the trust confided to it by the people, so recreant 
to its public duty, so inefficient in the details of its ad- 
ministration, that the people of the State, acting through 
the party that carried the State in 1855, had wrested the 
management of the lunatic asylums from the hands of 
the Democratic party. They 'had done it as an absolute 
necessity, and the men who supported the measures that 
produced that result were not Republicans, and thou- 
sands of them have never been Republicans since that 
time. The management of the Northern and Southern 
Asylums for the Insane had been so grossly corrupt, as 



well in the construction of the buildings as in their sub- 
sequent management in the hands of the dominant party, 
that on the accession to power in 1855 of the Know- 
Nothing and Anti-Nebraska parties in this State, their 
management was changed. The gentleman from Wayne 
(Mr. Eshelman) the other day charged that it was the 
Republican party that made this change ; but history 
shows that the necessity for this change grew out of the 
fact that the public verdict was that the Democratic 
party had grossly, outrageously, and persistently mis- 
managed these institutions. 

Mr. Eshelman — Will the gentleman from Athens 
allow me a word ? 

Mr. Grosvenor — Certainly. 

Mr. Eshelman — =1 did not say the Republicans suc- 
ceeded in 1855. I said that the Free-Soilers and Know- 
Nothings succeeded in 1855, and the General Assembly 
elected by that combination, on the 8th of April, 1856, 
passed laws reorganizing those institutions, and sweep- 
ing out of office every Democratic incumbent. 

Mr. Grosvenor — The gentleman from Wayne with- 
draws the charge that the Republican party inaugurated 
this system of party plunder in the public benevolent 
institutions. An examination of the records of that 
General Assembly will show that a majority of the 
members who voted for those bills were not, and those 
who are living are not now, members of the Republican 
party. The party in opposition to the Democratic 
party in this State at that time — the Know-Nothing 
party — numbered among its members such distin- 
guished Democrats of a later day as Van Trump, Trim- 



ble, Campbell, Chase, Hubbel, and a score of others, 
the leading, prominent, active men of modern Democ- 
racy ; men who rose into political power under the aus- 
pices of a secret political organization; men who swore 
eternal hostility to the rights of foreigners upon the 
soil of this country ; men who marched under the ban- 
ner inscribed with the legend, " Put none but Ameri- 
cans on guard to-night;" and these men who thus de- 
stroyed the Democratic party in 1855, have since been 
rebaptized into the fullest communion of the Demo- 
cratic organization, and to-day stand forth their ac- 
knowledged leaders. 

Mr. Haag — Will the gentleman inform me what 
party it was that organized in opposition to, and did 
fight the Know-Nothing party as a party, not as indi- 
viduals ? 

Mr. Grosvenor — Mr. Speaker, no political party 
fought it. Political organizations were swept away, as 
the wind drives the chaff before it. The organization 
of the Democratic party was powerless to withstand the 
desertions from its ranks. Thousands of its members, 
private soldiers and officers, deserted its colors and went 
over to its enemy. In the Democratic district where I 
lived at the time, with a majority of nearly three thou- 
sand, a district organized for the express purpose of 
sending to Congress a citizen of this town, a Know- 
Nothing was elected by almost three thousand, a revo- 
lution of six thousand votes from one election to 
another. The Democratic party bowed its head before 
the Juggernaut of religious and National proscription, 
and the result was its own destruction and its ejection 



6 

from these hospitals for the insane. It was not the act 
of the Republican party, for the Republican party had 
no organized existence until after the passage of the 
law of April 8, 1856. As time progressed, and the 
Republican party became in the ascendant in the State, 
it' naturally took possession of these institutions by 
operation of law — law then in force ; but it never in any 
instance revolutionized and changed the organic law of 
one of these institutions for the purpose of getting 
possession of the spoils thereof. Now let this Demo- 
cratic party, in power in Ohio by accident, when it takes 
possession of these institutions, do it upon one of two 
grounds : Either, first, that the preamble to this bill is 
true, and if this be so, then there is a necessity for this 
act, and a demand upon the Democratic party is made 
by the voice of the people of the State, and it need not 
hesitate, it should go straight forward, execute the de- 
mand of the people and appeal to the people for sup- 
port ; but if this preamble be not true, if in any essen- 
tial particular it is false, then let the Democratic party 
put its action upon the other, and in my judgment the 
better ground, because the more truthful, that it wants 
the proceeds of these offices — the moneV that is to come 
from the salaries — that there is a political necessity to 
wrest these institutions from the hands of the present 
occupants for the mere sordid purpose of transferring 
the salaries into the pockets of clamorous Democrats ; 
and in order to satisfy this insatiable outcry for plunder, 
it is willing to hazard the prosperity of these institu- 
tions ; and, Mr. Speaker, I am justified in saying that 
this is the true ground, in view of the fact that this bill 



increases the salaries of the officers of these institutions 
nearly $10,000 per year. What say you, my Demo- 
cratic friends, to this feature of the bill under consid- 
eration ? You came into power in this State under a 
platform which demanded retrenchment and economy in 
the public expenditure of the money of the people, and 
this is one of your first public acts. Let us see now 
how your acts compare with your public professions. 

In order to justify this wholesale revolution and for 
the purpose either of satisfying your own conscience or 
of putting on record a great fact, that the people of 
this State should know and understand, you have said 
there is extravagance in the expenditure of the public 
funds. If that is true, then you are called upon to ad- 
minister the will of the people, which to-day in this 
State is unmistakably in favor of curtailing the expenses 
of this administration ; but in the sixteenth section 
of this bill, with this same specious preamble attached 
to it, you increase the annual cost of the salaries of all 
these officers nearly $1 0,000. You can not escape from 
it. This bill is here upon its passage. No member 
of the Democratic party has asked up to this moment 
to amend this bill. Were I to relinquish the floor at 
this time the question would be, "Shall the bill pass ? ' 
You have placed yourselves upon the record in favor 
of this sixteenth section, just as completely and irrev- 
ocably as though you had in a body voted for it. You 
can not go before the people and deny it. The fact 
will haunt you from every stump and in every news- 
paper, and there will be no justification for it. 

In compliance with the demand I here and now 



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make, you may amend the sixteenth section of this bill 
and cut down these salaries ; but if you do it, the credit 
must redound to the Republicans upon this floor, who 
denounce your extravagance, and not to the Demo- 
cratic majority that has brought this bill to its passage 
in its present shape. Let me read you the sixteenth 
section of this bill : <l Each medical superintendent 
shall receive as compensation for his said services the 
sum of $2,000 a year; each assistant physician, $800 a 
year; each steward, $1,500 a year; each matron, $400. 
Said salaries shall be paid by the steward in monthly in- 
stallments, and receipts taken, and the several amounts 
carried into the monthlv account of the steward." I 
might here add that by the provisions of the fourth 
section of the bill, the steward will be entitled to draw 
his pay " from and after the 15th day of February, 
a. d. 1874," and until his successor is appointed and 
qualified, thus placing upon this bill the odious fea- 
tures of " back pay " or iC salary grab." 

What are the duties to-day assigned to the super- 
intendents, stewards, assistant physicians, and the ma- 
trons of the Insane Asylum ? Why, sir, they are pre- 
cisely the duties assigned to similar officers under the 
provisions of this bill. 

This bill does not enlarge or diminish those duties. 
Nothing is here imposed upon any one of them that 
has not been imposed by former legislation during all 
the existence of these asylums, and yet, with the knowl- 
edge of this fact, without any increase in the duties or 
responsibilities, you demand, by the passage of this bill, 
that, for the purpose of increasing the patronage to fall 



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into the hands of the Democratic party, and for the 
purpose of putting money into the pockets of the men 
you shall appoint to these same offices, there shall be 
added $10,000 to the burden of taxation now resting 
upon the people of Ohio. 

Pass this bill, and up from every hamlet and vil- 
lage, and from every house in this State, will come the 
loud-spoken condemnation of an outraged people heaped 
upon you for your unfaithfulness to the promises upon 
which you succeeded to power. Pass it, and set this 
odious example, and the party in the minority on this 
floor will become a majority in the next General As- 
sembly. Pass it with or without its present odious fea- 
tures, and " nothing canst thou to damnation add greater 
than that/' 

Let me refer to another act of this House which 
has already been concurred in and is now a law of this 
State. I refer to it to show you that this Democratic 
party, with all its professions of economy in public ex- 
penditure, is increasing the public burden at every step. 
You have established a Bureau of Construction for the 
Central Lunatic Asylum, and you have created a board 
of State officers, three in number, and have attached 
thereto an annual salary of $3,000. The duty of this 
board is simply to superintend the execution of the con- 
tracts for the building of the Central Lunatic Asylum. 
It is an act substantially in keeping, in all its terms, 
with the act under which the Athens Asylum was built 
under Republican administration. That asylum was 
constructed under the judicious management of the 
Hons. E. H. Moore, H. S. Bundv, and William E. 




Davis, three prominent, distinguished, and capable Re- 
publicans, who served during the time occupied in the 
construction of that building without pay, and simply 
for the payment of their necessary personal expenses. 
You have seen fit, because the commissioners are to be 
Democrats, to pay them $3,000 a year, and you voted 
down an amendment which I offered, striking out the 
salaries and adding that their pay should be "their 
actual expenses and no more/' This is an act of ex- 
travagance that you can not explain away. You can not 
go to the people of this State and say, with any hope of 
its being satisfactory, it is -true the Republicans built 
the Athens Asylum, and that they did have the services 
of these commissioners free of charge ; and it is true 
also that when their work was completed the people 
said, <c Well done, good and faithful servants/' and no 
spot or blemish was found upon the record of their 
doings in that behalf, and yet we must be justified in 
lavishly expending the people's money to pay a similar 
commission for similar work ; and even if you could, 
you can not apologize for the passage of this bill. When 
you approach the defense of this bill, your mouths will 
be closed. You have taken these five State institutions 
from the hands of the Republican party without the 
proof of a single fault in their administration, and you 
have charged against the pay-rolls of the concerns an 
additional cost to the tax-payers of the State of $10,000 
a year. 

Mr. Lewis — I wish to inform the gentleman that 
the increase of salaries in this institution is simply 



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$2,500, as the bill now reads, and is not as the gentle- 
man has stated. 

Mr. Grosvenor — What is the salary of the medical 
superintendent, as it is in the bill at this time? 

Mr. Lewis — I say the increase in his salary and in 
that of all the officers amounts to $2,500. 

Mr. Grosvenor — -In each institution ? 

Mr. Lewis — No, sir ; all together. 

Mr. Grosvenor — That must be a mistake, because 
upon the superintendent alone there is an increase of 
$800, and five times $800 are $4,000 on the superin- 
tendent alone. 

Turn to the sixteenth section of this bill, and I 
will give you the present salaries, and you can pencil 
under the line. The present salary of the medical su- 
perintendent is $1,200; the assistant physician, $700; 
the steward, $800 ; that of the matron is the same as in 
the present bill. Now you have added $100 to each of 
the physicians — two physicians, that is $200 ; $800 to 
the principal physician, that is $1,000; $700 to the 
steward, that is $1,700; now multiply that by five, and 
if it makes $2,500 I stand corrected. But I care not 
if it were only $2,500, the principle is just the same, and 
there is no justification or excuse for it. As the prices 
of the commodities of the country are gradually coming 
down to a gold standard, you are increasing the salaries 
of the officials of the State above what they were when 
greenbacks were 200 per cent. 

Now, it is said in answer to all this, that the Re- 
publican party has unfaithfully administered its trust 
in this behalf, and while it is admitted that as to all the 



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other asylums no complaint can fairly be made, yet the 
construction of the Central Lunatic Asylum has been 
badly managed, and that there is corruption there in the 
execution of the contracts. 

Now, admitting for the purpose of the argument, 
and for this purpose only, there is some grain of truth 
in this, how much of consolation can the Democratic 
party get out of it? How justly can they charge the 
Republican party with fault in this matter? Let us 
see. Their relation to this trouble, if trouble there be, 
will be better appreciated when you understand that the 
law authorizing the construction of that Central Asy- 
lum was passed by a Democratic Legislature. 

Mr. Eshelman — Will the gentleman from Athens 
allow me a word right here? If he will turn to the 
statute, O. L., vol. 70, pp. 90, 91, he will find in sec- 
tion 1, C£ That the Governor, Treasurer of State, and 
Attorney-General be and they are hereby authorized to 
purchase for the State of Ohio, of William S. Sullivant, 
a tract of land in Franklin township, Franklin county, 
to contain three hundred acres, bounded on the south 
by the National Road, on the north by the Columbus 
and Xenia Railroad, on the east by a line running due 
north from the second mile-stone, planted on the line 
of said National Road, to said railroad ; and on the west 
by a line running due north and south at a sufficient 
distance from said east line to contain said three hun- 
dred acres ; provided, the same can be purchased for any 
sum not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars ; pro- 
vided further, that before such purchase shall be made, 
the Governor, Treasurer of State, and Attorney-Gen- 



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eral shall sell the property of the State known as the 
Central Ohio Lunatic Asylum grounds, for a sum not 
less than two hundred thousand dollars, on such terms 
of payment as they may deem for the best interests of 
the State; provided, all deferred payments shall be sub- 
ject to annual interest at six per cent., and amply se- 
cured on unincumbered real estate in this State, which 
sale shall not include any of the material on the same, 
or any part of the old asylum building; and provided 
further, that (the) Governor, Treasurer of State, and 
Attorney-General are hereby authorized to purchase, 
for the purpose of erecting thereon the said asylum, 
any other land in the vicinity of Columbus, of not less 
than two hundred nor more than three hundred acres, 
having a view to the best interest of the State, and the 
object and benefit of the institution ; and provided fur- 
ther, that unless the same be sold and conveyed upon 
the terms aforesaid, on or before the 20th day of May, 
a. d. 1870, said trustees shall proceed immediately to 
erect said asylum thereon as if this act had not been 
passed. Passed April 18, 1870." Was it a Democratic 
Legislature that passed that law ? 

Mr. Grosvenor — The difficulty is not answered nor 
met by the member from Wayne (Mr. Eshelman). 

The trouble that has environed the construction of 
the Central Lunatic Asylum came from the legislation 
of 1869. The contracts for the building of this asy- 
lum were all let under the provision's of what is known 
as the Jewett law, and had the gentleman been a little 
more candid and read the next section, it would have 
thrown a good deal of light on the proposition : 



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cc When such purchase shall have been made, and the 
title to and the possession of said lands secured to the 
State, and proper releases of all damages and transfers 
of contracts by present contractors made for the com- 
pletion of contracts, at said point designated, to the 
acceptance of the Governor and Attorney-General, the 
trustees of the Central Ohio Lunatic Asylum shall pro- 
ceed immediately to erect thereon the building for the 
insane provided for by the act of the General Assem- 
bly, passed April 23, 1869; for which purpose they are 
hereby authorized and directed to make all necessary 
arrangements and agreements with any and all persons 
with whom contracts have already been entered into for 
the erection of such building upon the grounds of the 
old asylum, to carry out and complete said contracts 
upon such new location; provided, that- the increased 
amount paid to such contractors on account of increased 
expense to them arising from such change of location, 
shall not, in the aggregate, amount to more than shall 
be agreed upon by the Governor, Treasurer of State, 
and Attorney-General, if any, as a just and fair com- 
pensation for damages sustained for said change; and 
provided also, that said building shall be, in all respects, 
constructed in accordance with the plans and specifica- 
tions already heretofore provided for the erection of 
such building upon the old site." 

Mr. Eshelman — Will the gentleman from Athens 
allow me? That law passed in 1869 provided for the 
rebuilding of the Central Asylum on the old ground, it 
having been burned down in 1868 ; but the Legislature 
of the Republican party, which came into power in the 



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ensuing session, was not satisfied with that, and they 
provided for the erection of this mammoth humbug, as 
the gentleman from Lucas (Mr. Thompson) character- 
ized it a few days ago. 

Mr. Grosvenor — The gentleman from Wayne can 
not escape. The Legislature of 1870 provided for 
nothing but the change of the site; the contracts were 
to remain unchanged. 

Mr. Scott — And they saved to the State $200,000. 

Mr. Grosvenor — And the provision to that effect is 
here upon the records of this State, seen by almost ev- 
ery prominent Democrat in the city of Columbus. Let 
us see what they were to do : cc For which purpose they 
are hereby authorized and directed to make all necessary 
arrangements and agreements with any and all persons 
with whom contracts have already been entered into for 
the erection of such buildings upon the grounds of the 
old asylum, to carry out and complete said contracts 
upon such new location/' 

Thus it will be seen that whatever of evil has crept 
into the construction of the Central Asylum is the re- 
sult of Democratic legislation — laws passed by the 
Democratic party, and blunders and frauds of Demo- 
cratic and Republican contractors in executing the con- 
tracts, if any such frauds exist, which I deny. The 
difficulty was that the board of trustees of this asylum 
found themselves tied hand and foot, and unable to in- 
terfere in the execution of these contracts by the Jewett 
law of 1869. A more nefarious law in its operation 
was never put upon the statute books of any State, and 
the public judgment was that it should be repealed, and 



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it was repealed. But the injury that it accomplished 
adhered to the public institutions constructed under it, 
and adheres to them now, and whenever you want an 
illustration of Democratic management in the building 
of a lunatic asylum, you who have forgotten the history 
of the plundering of the State in the erection of the 
Northern and Southern Asylums, get into a carriage, 
and ride out to the Central Asylum, and you will find 
the ghost of former Democratic corruption and plunder 
rehabilitated and stalking forth anew in all its deformity. 

Mr. Light — I understand that the law passed in 
1869 has since been repealed. 

Mr. Grosvenor — I say so, too. I wish the gentle- 
man would not interrupt me to repeat my speech. 

Mr. Speaker, I object to the preamble to this bill 
because it misstates the fact. I will not characterize it 
in quite so strong terms as did the member from War- 
ren (Mr. Scott) the other night. But, sir, when this 
preamble tells the people of other States of this nation, 
and of other nations, that the State of Ohio, through its 
State administration — through the party that has ad- 
ministered its government for eighteen years — is dis- 
honest and extravagant, every citizen of the State has a 
right to send up his formal protest against such a state- 
ment. When the Democratic majority on this floor 
sends greeting to the inhabitants of Europe, and says 
that this party has been guilty of corruption, every 
lover of the State, every lover of its fair fame, has a 
right to constitute himself a defender and file his pro- 
test against such a charge. 

It is said in the preamble to this bill that t,hree- 



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fourths of the money raised by taxation is used for the 
purpose of these benevolent institutions <c in the sup- 
port of their inmates and providing new places for 
them." That is an error to just this extent: Instead of 
three-fourths of the money raised by taxation being 
used for these purposes, less than one-fourth is thus 
used. The statement is an exaggeration in the ratio of 
just three hundred per cent., and yet it is an exaggera- 
tion in simple keeping with Democratic statements in 
general. I have my figures and facts upon which I 
base my statement here and now from the Auditor of 
State, and I defy contradiction. I challenge any mem- 
ber upon this floor to rise and contradict me, and if no 
one does it, have I not the right to say that you shall 
hereafter forever hold your peace ? Yet you here put it 
in this bill and send it forth that three-fourths of the 
money raised in this State by taxation is used for this 
purpose. How can you justify such a statement as 
that? How can you vote for this bill with such a pre- 
amble attached to it ? 

I maintain there has been no time that the money 
used for these purposes under the administration of 
the Republican party was not demanded by every con- 
sideration of humanity, justified by the demands of 
every duty the State owed to its unfortunate citizens. 
I maintain that no lover of the State, no lover of her 
fair fame can justify himself before the people in de- 
nouncing these expenditures. 

This brings me naturally to an examination of the 
next proposition: "There is reason to believe there is 



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extravagance, if not dishonesty, in the expenditure of 
the taxes of the people." 

What does the author of this bill say in view of 
this remarkable statement ? What do you fifty-four 
Democrats here organized to vote for this bill propose 
to say? What is the logic of your position? It is 
this, and nothing more : Inasmuch as there is no reason 
to believe there is extravagance, if not dishonesty, in 
the expenditure of the taxes of the people, therefore we, 
the Democratic party, elected upon the platform of 
economy, will add $10,000 to the salaries of the officers 
of these institutions for the purpose of placing that 
amount of money, over and above the present salaries, 
into the pockets of the Democratic officers of these 
institutions. You charge there has been extravagance, 
if not dishonesty. The Democratic party has the 
power on this floor; they have a clear majority ; they 
may send for persons and papers, and examine under 
oath, every man, woman, and child in the State, and 
demand the inspection of the private papers of every 
man connected with every public institution in the 
State. 

In view of this fact — in view of the fact that you 
have the power to lay bare the secrets of the adminis- 
tration of each one of these institutions — I ask you 
whether it would not have been better for you to find 
something tangible to base your charge upon, before 
you made this sweeping charge of extravagance or dis- 
honesty, without any evidence whatever to sustain it. 
If there is extravagance or dishonesty, you have the 
means of making it clear to the people of this State. 



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Inasmuch as you have not done it, the verdict of the 
people of this State will be, you could noc do it. In- 
asmuch as you have attempted to pass this bill without 
such proof, the verdict of the honest people of this State 
will be: Ye knew that the charges in this bill were false, 
and yet assumed them to be true tor the purpose of 
doing this act. 

Now, what is the history of this matter in this 
State ? I know that what I shall say will sound to you 
like an oft-repeated tale, but I shall refer to the com- 
mittee of the last General Assembly that was raised to 
investigate this very subject. Old as the story is, often 
as it has been repeated, it is pregnant with powerful 
arguments against the justice and fairness of the pre- 
amble to this bill. The course of that Republican 
Legislature, in the emergency to which I shall refer, was 
a striking commentary upon the course you have seen 
fit to adopt under similar circumstances. That Legis- 
lature did not take the course that you have seen fit to 
take, in one instance at least. 

When the distinguished Democrat from Muskin- 
gum county, keen and incisive in the very construction 
of his intellect, rising in his place upon this floor, de- 
manded an investigation of the affairs of the State, the 
Republican majority on this floor yielded to his de- 
mand, raised a committee, and, in strict compliance 
with parliamentary usage, assigned Gen. William H. 
Ball to the head of it. That Republican majority did 
not demand to discuss the resolution, as you did in 
the case of a demand for an investigation by the Secre- 
tary of State recently, and thus throw over the passage 



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of the resolution until a partisan committee could be 
raised; but, on the contrary, it promptly passed the 
Ball resolution, and the Speaker of the House, Colonel 
Van Voorhees, to his honor be it said, promptly placed 
upon that committee Mr. Ball as chairman, and made 
Judge Pillars, another able and distinguished Democrat, 
a member thereof. 

Mr. Haag — If the gentlemen will permit the sug- 
gestion, when Mr. Ball was placed at the head of the 
committee he was investigating a Republican officer, 
and now a Republican officer was asking to be investi- 
gated. 

Mr. Grosvenor — When there are charges of official 
corruption, the Legislature -should know no Democrat 
and know no Republican, but they should examine and 
investigate ruthlessly and regardless of party considera- 
tions. 

This Ball committee spent the whole winter; 
every possible facility was accorded it, and it had all 
the means of knowledge which are to-day placed at the 
disposal of this Democratic Legislature, and their re- 
port meets your indictment of the Republican party by 
a plea of the general issue upon which the people of 
the State have already passed. 

I will read briefly from the report of that com- 
mittee: "The examination has taken a wide range; 
one hundred and nine witnesses, residing in different 
parts of the State, have been subpenaed and examined 
touching public contracts and expenditures, the con- 
struction of public buildings, the conduct of public 
institutions, etc. All matters without reference to the 



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date of their occurrence." No bar of the statute of 
limitation was interposed — no question of staleness in 
equity alleged. "All matters without reference to the 
date of their occurrence coming to the knowledge of 
the committee, that seemed to promise any probability 
of throwing any light upon the subjects of inquiry, or 
any of them, have been diligently inquired into. 

" Your committee take pleasure in reporting that 
so far as elective officers and their subordinates are con- 
cerned, very commendable honesty and fidelity have 
been observed, and in the official conduct of no public 
officer, whether elective or appointed, has corruption 
been disclosed. " 

This, Mr. Speaker, is the verdict of a committee 
composed of two Democrats and three Republicans, 
but signed by every member. This verdict covers the 
administration of the public affairs of the State of 
Ohio by the Republican party from its organization 
down to the present day. • It answers all aspersions 
cast against it, no matter from what source they may 
come, and if twenty years from now, another com- 
mittee, raised under similar circumstances, shall be able 
to say as much for the party that shall administer the 
government from now until then, it will be a proud 
record for the people of the State ; and I shall be sorry 
if, for partisan purposes, any man or set of men shall 
send greeting to the world and say that the people of 
Ohio, during the next twenty years, cc are extravagant, if 
not dishonest." 

But, sir, this. Democratic Legislature, notwithstand- 
ing this record, was not quite satisfied with the report 



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made by the Ball committee. So this winter you have 
set on foot divers investigations. Sundry attempts 
have been made to discover corruption, divers efforts 
to throw disgrace upon the Republican party, and ob- 
loquy upon the fair name of the people of the State. 
One committee was launched at the Ohio Penitentiary — 
an institution that, under Republican rule, is the best 
organized and managed in the world ; an institution 
which, from being a great source of outlay and expense 
under Democratic administration, has built up fine 
buildings, greatly increased its facilities, largely added 
to the comfort of its inmates, and is paying into the 
State treasury a handsome sum of money each year 
over and above all its outlay — and you investigated that 
to ascertain how many members of the warden's family 
ate at his table, and where the victuals to eat came from, 
and you came out of that just as you did from the 
Ball investigation, without the smell of corruption 
upon the party in powEr. No shadow was thrown on 
the administration of the warden of the Penitentiary. 

Then a member of your party, hopeful of per- 
sonal distinction, attacked the Secretary of State. A 
member of this Republican party is the Secretary of 
State, and to-day he stands as high in the estimation 
of the people of this State for honesty and political 
and official purity as any living man on the soil of 
Ohio. When you had completed your investigation, 
your committee, composed of able and faithful Demo- 
crats and Republicans, came into this House with their 
report, and to-day it lies upon our tables fully exoner- 
ating and justifying every act of the Secretary of State, 



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putting the seal of this legislative investigation upon 
his official conduct. The Republican party to-day has 
a right to feel proud that it numbers among its mem- 
bers a man upon whom it has bestowed official recogni- 
tion, Allen T. WykofF, the Secretary of State. 

Mr. Brunner, of Wyandot — Who attacked the 
Secretary of State ? 

Mr. (jrosvenor — I do not propose to go out of 
my way to reply to suggestions of that sort. I am 
not here to call by name members of another body. It 
is enough to say that this investigation was ordered 
here over the protest of the Republican party, so far 
as the organization of the committee was concerned ; 
but the committee was fair, honest, vigilant, faithful, 
and the result was, just what it always has been, a 
complete exoneration of this Republican official. 

And although diligently you have pursued this in- 
vestigation, I challenge any' one of you to put your 
finger upon the extravagant use of a dollar, and the 
strongest commentary upon this is the fact that you pro- 
posed to administer this same trust — these five benevo- 
lent institutions — by expending $io,ooo a year in a 
single item more than the Republican party has been 
getting along with. You came to the capital in the be- 
ginning firmly believing that there was corruption in 
and about the State House. You were told by the 
leading party organ of the State (the Cincinnati En- 
quirer) that the Legislature had four duties to perform : 
one was to elect a United States Senator ; the second, to 
pass an appropriation bill ; the third, to investigate every 
Republican institution, and fourth, to adjourn. Two 



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of these things you have accomplished. You have 
elected a United States Senator, a man in favor of the 
contraction of the currency and opposed to relieving the 
suffering business men of the State by legislation in 
Congress. You have investigated every Republican in- 
stitution. You have made some headway with the ap- 
propriation bill. But Divine Providence alone can tell 
when the fourth duty will be performed, that of adjourn- 
ing. The air had been filled with rumors that around 
this Central Lunatic Asylum, the offspring, as I have 
shown you, of Democratic legislation, the foster-child 
of the Democratic party, in its construction there was 
centering and festering fraud and corruption, and eagerly 
you looked forward to the prospect of disclosing the 
facts and bringing them to public knowledge and hold- 
ing up the resolution of investigation to the people of 
the State to show that the Republican party was cor- 
rupt and unfaithful, and not to be trusted ; and 1 con- 
fess that for one I feared such an investigation might 
tarnish the reputation of some of the men connected 
with that institution, yet we gladly voted for the inves- 
tigation and hoped that it would be something more 
than a mere farce — something more than a pretense, 
something more than the mere- ground upon which to 
base the introduction and passage of a partisan measure. 
But now what have you done ? A joint committee 
was raised upon the theory that corruption existed — 
raised to investigate and drag to light and punish the 
men who had been guilty of corruption. We voted 
that committee a clerk at a salary just what it asked, 
and what has the committee done ? It has kept the 



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clerk in the pay and employment of the State up to 
this time; but what has been the result? Nothing. 
No result has followed ; nothing has been discovered ; 
no attempt has been made to discover .anything. I 
leave it to the people of the State to say why, in view 
of the fact that you are seeking by the bill under con- 
sideration to legislate out of office every man connected 
with the Central Lunatic Asylum, no report has been 
made by that investigating committee. 

Mr. Lewis — If the gentleman will permit me, I 
would inform him that that clerk is discharged and has 
not been upon pay for some time since. 

Mr. Scott — I desire, by the permission of the 
gentleman from Athens, to make a brief statement in 
relation to the clerk and the action of the committee 
as one of that committee. It is not correct that the 
clerk of that committee has been discharged by the 
committee. The Republican members of that com- 
mittee, on the part of the Senate and on the part of the 
House, have been anxious to go into this investigation 
from the time they have been upon it. The same 
anxiety was expressed on behalf of the Democratic 
members of that committee of the House, and the 
chairman has called us together, I believe, three times. 
He told us the last time we were together that it was an 
elephant on his hands ; that he could not see that any- 
thing could be ferreted out, and therefore would not call 
the committee together any further except to dissolve it 
and ask to be excused. I desire to state in behalf of 
myself, as a member of that committee, that I have al- 
ways been anxious to go into that investigation — have 



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always been ready and willing* The chairman of that 
committee has written out a report and sent it to the 
committee of the House, and the committee of the 
House have declined to sign it, and I understand from 
the chairman of the committee (Mr. Bruner) that he 
was going to return that report yesterday to the chair- 
man of the Senate part of the committee. 

Mr. Lewis — -I wish to state for the information of 
the gentleman from Warren that the chairman of this 
committee, of which he is a member, stated to me at 
least one week since that he had discharged the clerk. 

Mr. Scott — If the chairman has assumed to dis- 
charge the duties of the committee, he has assumed a 
thing he has no right to do. I speak for the committee ; 
not the chairman of the committee. 

Mr. Grosvenor — For the purposes of my argument 
it makes no sort of difference. 

If the committee have disbanded, that is an ac- 
knowledgment that there is nothing they hope to dis- 
cover. If the committee have not disbanded, then their 
silence and failure to act is equally strong evidence that 
they expect no result to come from an investigation. 

Now, where is the evidence of extravagance or dis- 
honesty ? Is it found in the report made by the Auditor 
as to the clerks he had in his office, which I might have 
referred to as one of the investigations put on foot this 
winter ? Certainly not ; and you have set the seal of 
your approbation upon the acts of this Republican 
party, in that you have not abolished a single office 
created by it. 

You have placed an estoppel upon this record by 



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having added to the State officers already in existence 
an Inspector of Mines, attached to the Bureau of 
Mining, with a salary of $2,000 a year, with clerks and 
incidental expenses, building up here in the State House 
another branch of the State government. For this fea- 
ture I voted, and I do not condemn it ; but I remind 
you of it when you censure the Republican party for 
having created offices. No officer of the State govern- 
ment has been unfaithful. The State Auditor, long a 
member and officeholder of this Republican party, has 
no superior in administrative ability in this or any other 
State ; and the affairs of every other branch of the State 
government have been managed with strict economy, 
unflinching honesty, and wisdom. 

But I desire to advert briefly to another fact. 
During the recent campaign for Governor, villainous 
charges of corruption and fraud in the management of 
the probate judge's office in Hamilton county were made 
for partisan political purposes by the leading Democratic 
newspapers in this State, and they were repeated un- 
blushingly from every stump and in every Democratic 
newspaper throughout the land. The charges were those 
of corruption in office, and they startled the people of 
the State ; and in a single township in Hocking county 
forty Republicans voted against Noyes for Governor 
upon the sole ground of those charges, and Noyes was 
defeated — defeated by an insignificant majority. His 
defeat gives you Democrats here to-day the power to 
make your majority on this floor available for the pas- 
sage of such bills as that under consideration. The ac- 
cident of the defeat of Governor Noyes gives you the 



power to appoint the officers of these public institu- 
tions. You owe your success to this outrageous charge ; 
and Governor Allen, having failed, as it is said, to sup- 
press the publication of those charges, hastened, upon 
his induction into office, to place the seal of his official 
condemnation upon them, and to testify to the. world 
that he did not believe one word of all that had been 
said against the fair fame of Edward F. Noyes, by ap- 
pointing him a member of the Ohio Centennial Com- 
mission, along with such honored men as Hayes, Ran- 
ney, McCook, and the honored and distinguished speaker 
of this House; and to make the vindication of Noyes 
doubly significant, a Democratic Senate, without a dis- 
senting voice, confirmed his appointment. 

How stands the record upon this matter to-day ? 
Does your Democratic Governor confer this high ap- 
pointment upon a defaulter, a fraudulent probate judge, 
and does the Democratic Senate confirm such an ap- 
pointment as that? Your record upon this is the rec- 
ord of honorable admission that the charges made against 
Noyes were slanderous and unjustifiable. For the rea- 
sons that I have indicated, we protest against these 
sweeping charges of corruption in the administration 
of the affairs of this State by the Republican party. I 
stand here to-day to assert to the public and to the 
world, and challenge successful contradiction of the fact, 
that no party in this State, or any other State, has ever 
done itself so much credit under a system of free gov- 
ernment, as the Republican party of Ohio has done 
itself in the management of her public institutions. 
When the war of the rebellion was over, notwithstand- 



29 

ing the crushing outlay of money that our people had 
been compelled to make ; notwithstanding the uncer- 
tainty and foreboding as to the future; notwithstanding 
that no man could state what the future would bring 
forth, the people of the State of Ohio, Democrats and 
Republicans alike, organized and put in motion new 
charities, and enlarged and improved those already in 
existence. They took the starving orphan of the dead 
soldier, whose bones w T ere bleaching upon the country's 
battle-fields, and assigned them to homes for their care 
and education. They took the vagrant girls in the 
State and put them in a reformatory institution, which 
has rapidly become an honor and credit to the State. 
They had, long prior to that time, organized at Lan- 
caster the State Reform Farm, which has since been im- 
proved and enlarged — an institution which, I undertake 
to say, has not a superior or equal in the long list of 
reformatory institutions in the whole world. It is a 
model upon which organizations of a similar character 
have been formed in many other of the States ; and the 
superintendent, Mr. Howe, has, within the last two 
years, assisted in the organization of seven institutions 
of a similar character in other States, in that way re- 
ceiving assurances from Democratic and Republican 
officials that his administration of this institution is 
distinguished and satisfactory. Working for a nominal 
salary, devoted to the perfecting of the institution, he 
has achieved undying fame in the results that have at- 
tended his efforts. It has been charged here that in his 
official management he has been unjust and unfair to 
Democratic counties. I hold in my hand an over- 



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whelming contradiction of every statement of the sort. 
I find that in this State Reform Farm during the last 
year there were received from Franklin county seven 
inmates, and that is a much larger number than were 
received from any other county in the State. I find 
that the Democratic county of Hamilton sent the next 
largest number; that the Democratic county of Mont- 
gomery sent the next largest number, except the county 
of Cuyahoga. Now, since that time Franklin county 
has added to her seventeen a list of eleven more since 
the first day of November, a greater number than any 
county. Montgomery county has added three to the 
eleven she sent last year. So you will find, and I give 
you the benefit of it, that in this reformatory institu- 
tion for juvenile criminals the Democratic counties of 
this State are more largely represented than any other. 
That fact may come from several reasons. First, it 
may be that the administration of justice in Democratic 
counties is more scrutinizing and persistent; secondly, 
it may come from the fact that the superintendent of 
the Reform Farm is anxious to be more generous to 
these Democratic counties ; or third, it may possibly 
come from the fact that in these counties there is a 
greater number of juvenile criminals. I give you the 
facts, and leave you to argue out the results. 

The Republican party is to be turned out of all 
these institutions, and they are to be transferred into 
the hands of new men, untried, inexperienced men. The 
lunatics of the State are to be transferred into the hands 
of inexperienced superintendents, stewards, matrons, and 
nurses. No matter that it impairs the recovery of the 



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mentally sick and dying; no matter that your friends or 
my friends may fail of recovery which in skillful hands 
he might have had, and that he died insane — the hunger 
of the Democratic party demands the sacrifice, and you 
stand here upon the floor of this House to-day organ- 
ized in solid column to grant it; and the reason as- 
signed for it is, not that you want these places, not that 
you need this money, but because of extravagance. 
You have failed to show extravagance, and you are out 
upon that line of defense. Nor is it because the Re- 
publican party have been dishonest, for you have, in the 
most formal and solemn manner, acquitted the party of 
that charge in every particular. Then you must do this 
act, if you do it at all, upon the other ground that I 
have indicated : that there is a crying necessity for a 
change of these institutions for the purpose of distribut- 
ing the fund arising therefrom among the needy hangers- 
on of the Democratic party. 

Now I have only this to say : The Republican 
party is ready to go before the people of Ohio and 
challenge an investigation of each of its official acts. 
It is ready to go before the people of Ohio in the com- 
ing campaign, and point with pride and pleasure to its 
record — the record it has stamped upon the official his- 
tory of the State. The campaigns of the future will be 
stripped of many of the questions which have agitated 
us in the past, and which have become abstract in the 
politics of the country. We shall no longer be called 
upon to discuss before the people the grand proposition 
now settled and not denied, which you so long contro- 
verted and so long disputed, that every man was created 



32 

free and equal, and that slavery ought to be abolished. 
We shall no longer discuss before the people of the 
country the history of the Republican and Democratic 
parties during the war. We shall no longer be com- 
pelled to call the attention of the people to the fact that 
the Republican party was loyal as a party, and faithful 
to. the flag and the constitution, during the terrible 
struggle for our national existence. Nor shall we be 
called upon again to assert that the Democratic party 
in the Northern States favored and aided the rebellion 
by its sympathy and denunciation of the war measures 
of the Republican party. 

But, sir, it will have no reflections to cast upon 
the Democratic party for this terrible record which it 
made. It will go before the people of the country 
and demand a vindication upon the grounds that I 
have shown — upon the ground that the Democratic 
party, though in power, with all the means of investi- 
gation in its hands, has been unable to find the place 
and time and circumstances under which the Republi- 
can party has been unfaithful to the trust confided in it 
by the people of the State. It will assert that the 
Republican party brought the State by wise adminis- 
tration proudly through the perils of the period of 
war; that it wrote in indelible characters the gallantry 
of Ohio upon the historic page of every battle-field of 
the great rebellion ; that in the Cabinet and in the 
councils of the- Nation, it was wise, faithful, patriotic, 
and undismayed. It will show that in the trying times 
of greenback inflation, high taxes, and financial panics, 
it never faltered in the discharge of a single duty it 



33 

owed to the State, or to humanity, or to the nation at 
large. So wisely did it administer the affairs of the 
people that prosperity prevailed throughout the length 
and breadth of the land, until through the apathy of 
its members, and not by a verdict of condemnation, a 
Governor of another party was chosen. The Demo- 
cratic party thus takes the responsibility of driving out 
of power all the Republicans it can lay its hands upon, 
and has thus branded the record with the charges of 
crime and extravagance. It is a fearful responsibility. 
The people of Ohio are proud of the history of this 
Republican party, and they will rise as one man to 
vindicate it when its fair fame is assailed by the ancient 
enemy of the Republican party — the Democratic party. 
Sound your tocsin for the coming campaign ! Let it 
be known that you go before the people with an asper- 
sion of the record of the Republican party as your 
battle-cry, and the people of this State will rise up — - 
not forgetting the history they made during the great 
war, nor forgetting the perils through which they have 
passed since — and proudly rescue the flag of the 
Republican party from temporary disaster, and will 
place it anew upon the highest pinnacle of fame and 
permanent dominion. 

Mr. Speaker, I hope this bill will not pass this 
House; that the Democratic party here will pause 
upon the brink of such a record as this. I hope it 
will hesitate before it adds ten thousand dollars to the 
taxes of the people. But if this bill shall pass, 
if it must become the law of the State, the Republican 



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party will go out of office with the proud consciousness 
that it has done its duty, and that 

" Truth crushed to earth will rise again — 
The eternal years of God are hers 5 
While error, wounded, writhes in pain, 
And dies amid her worshipers " — 

and that the just verdict of the people of the State will 
be, that the Republican party merits not that the stat- 
ute books of the State shall be stained by charges such 
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